Airfix Starter Set – Sherman Firefly

Airfix

Airfix Starter Set \u2013 Sherman Firefly \n\n--1:72 Scale plastic model kit - Requires assembly\n--Glue and paint are not required (included with kit)\n--In stock ready for quick dispatch!\n\nAs Allied forces began to move off the D-Day beaches and into the \nNormandy countryside, they knew they would be facing strong opposition \nfrom German Panzer units, including the feared Heavy Tank Battalions. \nFortunately, they now had a tank which was capable of taking on the \nTigers and Panthers, in the form of the Sherman Firefly, a British \ndesigned marriage of the M4 Sherman and their famous 17-pounder \nanti-tank gun. Usually deployed in a ratio of one Firefly to four \nstandard Shermans, German tank commanders soon learned to look for the \nlonger barrel of the Firefly and attempt to knock these tanks out first.\n In order to make identification more difficult, British crews would \ncamouflage the front of their guns with light coloured paint, giving \ntheir tank the appearance of a.